#perpetual

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#clean #detestable #i #kitchen #lives

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#crowds #eyes #familiar #human #loneliness

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#bad #character #choose #defines #gift

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. ↗

— Sting

#exist #hysteria #i #perpetual #state

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#embedded #fashioned #fixed #human #human spirit

The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head") ↗

— Blaise Cendrars

#decapitation #guillotine #perpetual-motion #art

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. ↗

— Heather Mills

#been #constant #denying #life #motive

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#approved #choices #dangerous #dangerous place #family life

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#among #angel #back #darkness #fallen